the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 20:26
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A wise king winnows the wicked,And turns the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king winnows the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them.
A wyse kyng disperseth the vngodly, and bringeth the wheele ouer them.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
A wise king sifts out the wicked, And brings the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king scatters the wicked and turns the wheel over them.
Like a farmer who separates wheat from the chaff, a wise king will decide who is wrong and crush them.
A wise king winnows out the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, & bringeth the wheele ouer them.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
A wyse kynge destroyeth ye vngodly, & bryngeth the whele ouer them.
After careful scrutiny, a wise leader makes a clean sweep of rebels and dolts.
A wise king sifts out the wicked [from among the good] And drives the [threshing] wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].
A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
A wise king winnows the wicked, And brings the [threshing]-wheel over them.
A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.
A wise ruler severely punishes every criminal.
A wise king winnows the wicked [from the righteous] and threshes them under the cartwheel.
A wise King scattereth the wicked, & causeth the wheele to turne ouer them.
A wise king scatters the wicked and crushes them under the wheel.
A wise king winnows out the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king sifteth the wicked, and turneth the wheel over them.
A wise king puts the sinful aside and crushes the grain over them.
A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.
A wise king winnoweth the wicked, and bringeth the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
A wise king, winnoweth out the lawless, when he hath turned over them the wheel.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.
A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them.
A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them.
A wise king scatters the wicked, And drives a threshing wheel over them.
A wise king sorts out the evil people, and he punishes them as they deserve.
A wise king will find out who is doing wrong, and will punish him without pity.
A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
A wijs kyng scaterith wickid men; and bowith a bouwe of victorie ouer hem.
A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wise: Proverbs 20:8, 2 Samuel 4:9-12, Psalms 101:5-8
bringeth: 2 Samuel 12:31, Isaiah 28:27, Isaiah 28:28
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:6 - according 1 Kings 2:36 - Shimei Nehemiah 13:28 - I chased Psalms 72:4 - break Psalms 101:8 - early Proverbs 14:35 - king's Romans 13:4 - be
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise king scattereth the wicked,.... Or "fans [them] away" i; separates them from his good counsellors, courtiers, and subjects; scatters them from his presence and court, and breaks their counsels and confederacies one with another; he discovers, discountenances, and discourages them; :-;
and bringeth the wheel over them; alluding to the custom of the eastern nations turning a cart wheel over the grain in threshing it out, and agreeably to the metaphor in the preceding clause; see Isaiah 28:27. Though some think it refers to a sort of punishment inflicted on malefactors in those times and countries, by putting them under harrows drawn on wheels, as breaking upon the wheel has been since used; see
2 Samuel 12:31. The Arabic version understands it of exile. Jarchi interprets the wise king of the Lord, and the wicked of Pharaoh and his host, on whom he brought the wheel, or gave measure for measure, and punished in a way of retaliation; and to this sense it is by some k interpreted,
"as the wheel turns over, just in the same place, so as the wicked hath done, it shall be done to them.''
It may be applied to Christ, the wise King, who scatters all his and our enemies; whose fan is in his hand, and he wilt thoroughly purge his floor, Matthew 3:12.
i מזרה "ventilat", Junius & Tremellius, Schultens. k Vid. Schindler. Lexic. col. 109. & Weemse's Christ. Synagog. l. 1. c. 6. s. 8. p. 187.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The wheel - The threshing wheel Isaiah 28:27-28, which passes over the grain and separates the grain from the chaff. The proverb involves therefore the idea of the division of the good from the evil, no less than that of the punishment of the latter.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:26. Bringeth the wheel over them. — He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.
